Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Notes on the Micros

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    OK, friends. With the new year about to start I’m setting my reading goals now. Said goals will be based …
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  2. Splice

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Katie Beswick   Oneegg split —four legged,two lipped.Cups dipin bonesof hips.Sip wine.Contemplate stardust.Cleaving, cleaving —frog-footed,breathing, breathing;marble shaped,turning over.Long-limbed,day-dreaming,easiest leaving.You’re …
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  3. Attention

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Daniel Rortvedt At the hardware store again                         I contemplate the same rose bush. Each spring we plant the garden. …
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  4. Notes on the Micros

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    Hey — what’s the small idea? What qualifies me to be the editor of your micros section, anyway? Am I …
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  5. In a Minor Key

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Barbara Siegel Carlson   As Queen Anne’s lace stirsin a late day summer breezealong one side of the bog …
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  6. A Salt Pact

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Julie Esther Fisher   A ceremony with your three daughtersYou held our ankles, dangled usoverboard, made uskiss the seaa …
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  7. Freshwater Pearl Rush, 1897 – 1903

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Sandy Longhorn     — Lower White River Museum State Park Once, they bent and rakedthe mussel beds with handsgone to …
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  8. Salt

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Marc Alan Di Martino   Hot roasted corn tastes just like seawaterto parched lips. First it burns, then it heals.It …
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  9. Sonnetletter to Mule Deer

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Tara Labovich   with roughened coats & blackenedscars you make your bed in the droughtcrackledgrass behind the house, beside the …
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  10. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    In April I attended the Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra’s anniversary performance of Beethoven’s ninth symphony, commemorating its premiere 200 years ago. …
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IMAGE: Painted scroll: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu)
IMAGE: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu) (Yokoi Kinkoku 横井金谷) , 1985.791,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2025